Motivational Quotes

Action

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

- Angelou, Maya

Best Quotes about Action

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Action is character.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al